Scum of the Earth (1963)

Director:

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Writer:

Herschell Gordon Lewis (writer)

Release Date:

8 October 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A naive and innocent teenage girl is blackmailed into modeling in the nude for a photographer whom is in league with a teenage gang whose boss illegally sells photos of teenage girls being abused and degraded.

Plot Keywords:

Blackmail | B Movie | Photography | Psychotronic | Sexploitation

Cast

William Kerwin	...	Harmon Johnson (as Thomas Sweetwood)
Allison Louise Downe	...	Kim Sherwood (as Vickie Miles)
Lawrence J. Aberwood	...	Lang (as Lawrence Wood)
Sandra Sinclair	...	Sandy (as Sandy Sinclair)
Mal Arnold	...	Larry
Craig Maudslay Jr.	...	Ajax
Christy Foushee	...	Marie (as Toni Calvert)
Doug Brennan	...	Carl
Christina Castel	...	Cindy, the model
Edward Mann	...	Mr. Sherwood
Lou Youngman	...	Dave, punk in diner
William Caulder	...	Joe, punk in diner

Also Known As:

Devil's Camera

Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Quotes:

Lang: It's time for straight talk, Kim. It's not my fault you posed for Harmon. It's not my fault you posed for Larry in the nude. You did it, its your problem, its pretty late to act prissy and prim. All you kids make me sick! You act like little Miss Muffet and down inside your dirty...

Movie Connections:

Featured in Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001)

Ridiculous, made for the drive-in, nonsense, though representative of the '60s B-movies atmosphere. Definitely a must see in order to understand what a bad movie is all about (although the 71 minutes will s

Ridiculous, made for the drive-in, nonsense, though representative of the '60s B-movies atmosphere. Definitely a must see in order to understand what a bad movie is all about (although the 71 minutes will seem like forever). If the nude photo sessions were really nude, only then could the interest of the film rise... Instead, we have a PG rated movie trying to be daring and shocking, by showing the legs of its untalented starlet. Surely, a cult movie for our time, but not because of its quality. The only reason for "Scum of the Earth" to remain in our memory is the lesson it offers to the film makers as to what they should NOT do.